It's like a +9 Greatsword of Liver Slaying

Inspired by our heated debate over the Old Fashioned, cocktail writing guru and “father” of the cocktail bloggers Paul Clarke mentioned the Mixoloseum in today’s New York Times proof blog.

I can already see the “get a life” comments this confession will incite (though really, is fantasy baseball that much cooler?) and indeed, there are times when ardent cocktail fans gather — whether in person at an event like the annual Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans, or online in the Mixoloseum, a blogger-oriented chat room with an atmosphere and maturity level not unlike that found in a yellow school bus on the way to junior-high band camp — that, in certain circles, the geek-ness hangs so heavy in the air that there’s real danger a game of Dungeons & Dragons might break out at any moment.

Thanks Paul, we think.  But since we’ve got you here, why not head over to the chat and whoop it up? We promise to keep our d20s at bay, stay out of the Whedon-verse, and keep the discussion on what’s important… drawing sides on differences between two Stoughton’s bitters recipes both published in the late 1700s with a 5ml variance of hyssop tincture.

Tagged as: New York Times, old fashioned, Paul Clarke